Mala Neshil Ka

निळ्याभोर  गगनात  दिसणारे  पांढुरके  ते  ढग 
डोळे  भरून  पाहता  डोळे  दिपतील  ते  बघ 
स्वच्छंद  वारा  वाही  अशा  त्या  ठिकाणी 
सांग  मला  तू  नेशील  का ?

वाऱ्याने  झुळझुळणारे  हिरवे  पिवळे  ते  शेत 
मित्रांसोबत  अबोध  ढोरंही  जेथे  देती  भेट 
तुझ्या  बालपणाच्या  त्या  खास  ठिकाणी 
सांग  मला  तू  नेशील  का ?

थकलेल्या  गाड्यांसंगे  वाटेत  घ्यावा  थोडा  विसावा 
डाळीत  बाट्यांच्या  न्याहारीत  साधेपणाचा  गोडवा  असावा 
निसर्गाच्या  सानिध्यात  त्या  प्रेमळ  ठिकाणी 
सांग  मला  तू  नेशील  का ?

काळ्या  कुट्ट  काळोखात  घरी परतीच्या  वेळी 
काजव्यांचे  दिवे  दाखविती  वाट  जणू  दिवाळी 
परिकथेतील  वाटावे   अशा  त्या  ठिकाणी 
सांग  मला  तू  नेशील  का ?

राबलेल्या  शरीराचे  शीण  थोडे  काढावे 
बैलाच्या  जोडी  शेजारी  जरा  निजावे 
रम्य  आठवणी  असलेल्या  तुझ्या  त्या  गावी 
सांग  मला  तू  नेशील  का ?

Little Steps

I remember the day
When those little hands held me for the first time
And the funny sounds you made
While singing your first rhyme

I remember your first day to school
More than you I struggled to keep my cool

How I would dress you up in your favorite clothes
And put those colorful beads to your curly hair
You were my shining little angel
With twinkling eyes and chubby cheeks that were fair

How I would put you to sleep with a lullaby
And stories of fairies and stars in the sky
Never realized how time flew by
The baby steps then, now started running by

When I was trying to keep up with the world
You learnt to eat on your own
And doing your own hair which were now grown

Books replaced the bedtime stories I told
My time was divided into multiple folds

Your once tiny fingers are now long enough to write to me
Being in the same house you ask "Mom, when will you come to me"

I wish I could live that one day again
To put you to sleep on my lap and caress your mane

I wish to feed those little bites of your favorite food
And make you ready like a princess to lift up your mood

I wish to steal time to do all that again
Coz' once grown up you will never be little again